ED visits Bengaluru man who claimed to have imported Rs 50-crore dog
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday visited the house of a man here to conduct a potential search for the violation of foreign exchange rules after he claimed to have imported a Rs 50-crore dog.
The assertion, however, was found to be fake.
Sources said that the officials of the federal probe agency found that the man “had no means” to purchase such a costly canine, and such reports were “just created” for possible social media engagement.
The man, according to reports, had claimed that he had imported the “world’s most expensive” dog — a cross-breed of a Caucasian Shepherd and Wolf. The claim gained prominence on social media, inviting the ED’s glare.
Officials of the federal probe agency, acting on this open-source information, reached his home to verify the claims, only to find that they were fake.
The dog, whose pictures were also circulated widely on social media, was owned by his neighbour and was not worth “even a lakh (of rupees)”, they said.
The agency has not initiated any probe under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), the sources said.
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